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The Village Street | Edgar Allan Poe Poems · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: In these rapid, restless shadows. Once I walked at eventide,
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  Speaker 1: when a gentle, silent maiden walked in beauty at my side.
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  Speaker 1: She alone there walked beside me, all in beauty, like
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  Speaker 1: a bride pallidly. The moon was shining on the dewy meadows, nigh,
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  Speaker 1: on the silvery silent rivers, on the mountains, far and
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  Speaker 1: high on the ocean starlit waters, where the winds a
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  Speaker 1: weary dye. Slowly, silently, we wandered from the open cottage
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  Speaker 1: door underneath the elms long branches, to the pavement bending ore,
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  Speaker 1: underneath the mossy willow, and the dying sycamore, With the
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  Speaker 1: myriad stars in beauty olbedit. The heavens were seen, radiant
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  Speaker 1: hopes were bright around me like the light of stars, serene,
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  Speaker 1: like the mellow midnight splendor of the knight's irradiant queen. Audibly,
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  Speaker 1: the elm leaves whispered peaceful, pleasant melodies, like the distant,
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  Speaker 1: murmured music of unquiet, lovely seas, while the winds were
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  Speaker 1: hushed in slumber in the fragrant flowers and trees, wondrous
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  Speaker 1: and unwonted beauty still adorning all did seem while I
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  Speaker 1: told my love in fables neath the willows by the stream,
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  Speaker 1: would the heart have kept unspoken love that was its
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  Speaker 1: rarest dream. Instantly away we wandered in the shadowy twilight tide.
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  Speaker 1: She the silent, scornful maiden, walking calmly at my side
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  Speaker 1: with a step, serene and stately, all in beauty, all
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  Speaker 1: in pride. Vacantly I walked beside her. On the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Mine eyes were cast, swift and keen. There came unto
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  Speaker 1: me bitter memories of the past on me, like the
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  Speaker 1: rain in autumn, on the dead leaves, cold and fast
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  Speaker 1: benderneath the elms. We parted by the lowly cottage door.
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  Speaker 1: One brief word alone was uttered, never on our lips.
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  Speaker 1: Before and away I walked, forlornly, broken hearted. Evermore slowly,
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  Speaker 1: silently I loitered homeward in the night alone, Sudden anguish
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  Speaker 1: bound my spirit, that my youth had never known, wild
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  Speaker 1: unrest like that which cometh when the night's first dream
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  Speaker 1: hath flown Now to me. The elm leaves whisper, mad,
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  Speaker 1: discordant melodies and keen melodies like shadows haunt the moaning
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  Speaker 1: willow trees and the sycamores with laughter mock me in
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  Speaker 1: the nightly breeze, sad and pale, the autumn moonlight through
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  Speaker 1: the sighing foliage streams, and each morning midnight shadow shadow
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  Speaker 1: of my sorrow seems strive. O heart forget thine idol,
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  Speaker 1: and O soul forget thy dreams,